Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss

Coordinates: 55°40′37″N 5°38′46″W / 55.677°N 5.646°W / 55.677; -5.646

Date	24 May 1647
Location	Rhunahaorine Point, Kintyre, Scotland
Result	Covenanter Victory

Belligerents

Royalist Highland Scots

Covenanter Scots

Commanders and leaders

Alasdair MacColla (Sir Alexander or Alasdair MacDonald)

David Leslie

Location within Scotland

Scotland
in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Bishops Wars

Newburn

First English Civil War

Scottish Civil War

Third English Civil War

Glencairn's rising

Clan MacDonald-Clan Campbell feuds

Rathlin Island (1642) Battle of Inverlochy (1645) Lagganmore (1646) Rhunahaorine Moss (1647) Castle Sween (1647) Dunaverty (1647) Glencoe (1692) Sheriffmuir (1715)

The Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss was a battle between Covenanters led by General David Leslie and Royalist forces led by Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich (Sir Alexander MacDonald) at Rhunahaorine Point, Kintyre, Scotland on 24 May 1647. The Covenanters defeated the Royalists.^[1]

Largie Castle at Rhunahaorine, home of the MacDonalds of Largie, was razed by the forces of General David Leslie.^[2]

References

↑ "Scottish Battles List by Region, Scotland - UK History.". 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
↑ "Ronachan Places". 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-08.

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